Re: [PATCH net 1/3] vxlan: vnifilter: limit the VNI range of a single request

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 20:31:20 EST


On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 12:26:43 +0300 Ali Firas wrote:
> VXLAN_VNIFILTER_ENTRY_START and VXLAN_VNIFILTER_ENTRY_END are parsed
> without any bound on how far apart they are, so a single RTM_NEWTUNNEL
> message can ask for the whole 24-bit VNI space. vxlan_vni_add_del() then
> loops over that span creating one VNI node and one per-CPU stats block
> per iteration, all under rtnl_lock.

The AI review looks legit.
Please target net-next without a fixes tag for this.
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